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  • The reason we shouldn’t support Ukraine is that every bomb we send is a bad day for someone, statistically mostly civilians.

    Im sure Russia would take over peacefully … like in bucha.

    Maybe we should allow the Ukrainian people to choose whether to fight or capitulate.



  • For you to short something a institutional investor or market maker takes a long position on the same thing.

    For some reason legit institutional investors never really show up in the crypto sphere and the smart market makers don’t like to get high on their own supply (or are selling tokens they got at insider prices on the open market).










  • How?

    Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, […]

    I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

    Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it

    Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

    Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

    Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

    How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
    Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

    The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

    Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.